Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily DickinsonHarper Collins, 28 sep. 2010 - 1572 sidor In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest ‘intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin—and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning, This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists. |
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... rational thinking becomes a goal unto itself , that means people have devel- oped a system for checking whether an idea has a foundation outside plain faith . This sort of checking keeps valuing those ideas that have a demonstra- ble ...
... rationality, without personality, without interest in humanity, and as Burkert says, without grace. Where Heraclitus ... rational belief in God or gods: we don't know who or what we are looking for and we do not have much time to observe ...
... rational thought is part of the “ this seems unlikely ” phe- nomenon , but it is as often a matter of rationalist history , or linguistics , as it is a matter of natural science . In the light of knowledge of other cultures , Xenophanes ...
... rational secularism. Also working in the middle of the fifth century BCE , just prior to Socrates, Prodicus of Ceos tried to figure out how human beings “learned” the names of the gods. Prodicus was a Sophist philosopher and his method ...
... rational attempts to figure out the universe, but what seemed reasonable to his mind was very much shaped by the dominant religious vision of his time and place. The culture's specific claims made certain things—a pantheon, for example ...
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TWO Smacking the Temple 600 BCE1 | 45 |
THREE What the Buddha Saw 600 BCE1 | 86 |
FOUR When in Rome in Doubt 50 BCE200 | 125 |
FIVE Christian Doubt Zen Elisha | 169 |
SIX Medieval Doubt LoopstheLoop 8001400 | 216 |
SEVEN The Printing Press and | 264 |
EIGHT Sunspots and White House Doubters 16001800 | 315 |
NINE Doubts Bid for a Better World 18001900 | 371 |
The New Cosmopolitan | 428 |
Notes | 495 |
Bibliography | 521 |
Acknowledgments | 529 |
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